It’s Official – The FCC Will Vote to Take Over the Internet in December

[scott]

On 12/22/2010 01:09 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:05:51 +0800, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>>> Reminds me of the 'seven sisters' (now 5) of the oil industry, looks
>>> like we are going back to the ITT days - good luck to would-be
>>> Mosaddegh's or Allende's. But this may be overblown, the unseen big boys
>>> are now picking on their own people, now that the rest of the world has
>>> wisen up.
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not so sure of that. I suspect lobbying aka legalized bribery will
>> be hitting Europe and them that boast of hundreds of choices for their
>> fixed line/internet link will be gagged.
> You're not far off the mark. There are, of course contemporary Shah's,
> Pinochet's, and Nakasone's, mostly in the middle east, and for the most
> part, repressive to their own people. For those in so called 'free and
> democratic' countries, they are cajoled, bribed, pimped, threatened and
> bullied by the 'leader of the free world' to do the big unseen boys'
> bidding. Like turkeys being roasted,their supporters will fight for the
> chefs roasting them because they thought they elected them and they
> thought they are free.
>
> There are none more enslaved than those who thought they are free.
>
> Anyway, Christopher, we've gone far from the topic of 'net neutrality' and
> I guess it's time to stop here.
>
> Regards and take care - Goh Lip
>
This is what it's all 
about......."http://shell.voxel.net/~arothsch/ratio-petition-v3.pdf"

..."Dear Chairman Genachowski and Commissioners:
In recent letters to the FCC and supporting media activity (exhibit 
attached), Comcast represents
to the Commission and general public that its ongoing dispute with Level 
3 is “simply about
peering”. Comcast explains that the issue centers around traffic ratios 
and its entitlement to
financial compensation because, fundamentally, its network receives more 
traffic from Level 3
than it generates towards Level 3 – a position supported by “countless 
industry experts”. In
reality, this representation is not accurate, nor is industry consensus 
unanimous."......

Scott